Payal Kadakia
Founder & Artistic Director @ The Sa Dance Company
New York, United States
Payal Kadakia is a seed investor at The Sa Dance Company in New York focused on Beauty and Retail. Payal Kadakia is the Founder and Chairman of ClassPass, a membership program that provides people of all fitness levels access to the best boutique studio classes across the US. Since its launch in 2013, ClassPass has facilitated 50 million reservations across 10,000 studios in 50+ cities globally. Payal is also the Founder and Artistic Directorof The Sa Dance Company, founded in 2009 with the mission to increase awareness of Indian Dance in the mainstream and serve as a platform for expressing the Indian-American identity through movement. Payal previously worked as a consultant at Bain & Company and holds a degree in Operations Research from MIT.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Beauty 1 (25%)
- Retail 1 (25%)
- Travel 1 (25%)
- Fashion 1 (25%)
- Health Care 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
Investments
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Kindred
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Kindred provides a home swapping network. | $7.8M / Seed / Apr 21, 2022 | |
Olipop
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OLIPOP is the clinically backed consumer beverage that meets consumer’s real-world taste preferences in a delicious tonic that benefits the microbiome, digestive function and metabolic health. | $30M / Series B / Feb 01, 2022 | |
Live Tinted
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Live Tinted is a digital community focused on the representation of all the shades in between. Despite incredible change and moves towards more diversity, many women and others still felt they were missed or looked over even in these progressive beauty spaces. They created TINTED & wanted to reach those people, to hear what they felt wasmissing, and to learn how they wanted to be represented authentically. They want to share the importance of a strong personal identity in order to build out their niche presence in beauty as part of the normal standard – to be seen as fully immersed, and no longer as a token or a checkmark.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | Pre-Seed / Aug 16, 2019 | |
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Live Tinted
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Live Tinted is a digital community focused on the representation of all the shades in between. Despite incredible change and moves towards more diversity, many women and others still felt they were missed or looked over even in these progressive beauty spaces. They created TINTED & wanted to reach those people, to hear what they felt wasmissing, and to learn how they wanted to be represented authentically. They want to share the importance of a strong personal identity in order to build out their niche presence in beauty as part of the normal standard – to be seen as fully immersed, and no longer as a token or a checkmark.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 11, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About The Sa Dance Company
The Sa Dance Company, founded by Artistic Director Payal Kadakia, is committed to increasing awareness of Indian dance in the mainstream.The company serves as a platform for expressing the Indian-American identity through movement inspired by Indian folk, classical, and Bollywood dance as well as jazz, ballet, and contemporary. The name “Sa”originates in the foundations of Indian classical music, in which “Sa” is both the first and laste note in the octave.All Sa Dance Company dancers have been trained in various forms of Western and Indian dance, including Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Odissi, Ballet, Hip-hop, Jazz, Garba, Bhangra, and Bollywood. Grace, beauty, and artistic integrity combined with innovative choreography are characteristics of Payal Kadakia’s work and can be seen in every Sa performance.The company has been featured in The New York Times, Elle, NY1, notable South Asian publications and have been invited to perform at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Peabody Essex Museum, Emelin Theater, Summerstage and other prestigious dance festivals around the country.
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What does Payal Kadakia invest in?
Payal Kadakia invests primarily in Beauty, Retail and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Payal Kadakia closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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